Once More to the Office
As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death–E.B. White, Once More to the Lake I have to go into the office to check on a HVAC problem, so I grab The Tween to go … Continued
Author Archives: Shawn Crawford
Don’t Rant on Us
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant would like to discuss members of the electorate that oppose immigrants and mysterious religions. Trump? Tea Party? Glenn Beck? No, the mid-19th Century Know-Nothing party. We turned on an historical dime there. The Rant has … Continued
We Rant, You Decide
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant begrudgingly offers our congratulations to The Singularity, we mean Alabama, on winning the national championship. The grim efficiency of the Tide’s all-star team, cheered on by fans that would call the police if any of … Continued
The Wages of Quen
Oklahoma City scored a print of Quentin Tarantino’s new movie The Hateful Eight, so we loaded up and headed out. That’s print, as in film, 70mm to be exact, shot on the same cameras used for Ben Hur. If you … Continued
Rant Me Up
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant would like to know why the world is trying to cram a year’s worth of drama into the first week of 2016. Pace yourselves, kids. You’re going to make Wolf Blitzer’s beard spontaneously combust from … Continued
The Old Man and the Rant
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant needs to clear out the Rant vaults so we can start fresh with the new year. In fact, if we had our druthers, we would fire up the time machine and head straight to 2017 … Continued
Light the Yuletide Rant
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant has received requests for a holiday tale, so here we go: When The Rant was wee, we would load up the car and head to our grandparents in Logan, Kansas, population 700, give or take … Continued
The Rant Awakens
The Rant derives endless pleasure imagining middle-aged geeks trying to squeeze into the Stormtrooper uniforms they made for Return of the Jedi. Use the force to suck that gut in boys. We fondly remember waiting in line for Jedi with … Continued
Rant Christmas
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant enjoys many things about the holidays, but chief among them is this: Vera-Ellen’s waist in White Christmas. Hypnotic. We can’t look away. Vera-Ellen gets lost in the golden age of Hollywood musicals of the 40s and … Continued
The Good Rant
The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant has two words for parents lamenting that death occurs in The Good Dinosaur: Bambi’s Mom. We all saw what went down in the forest primeval, and we weren’t old enough to even pour one out … Continued